… critique of kinship and the model of house societies, and contrasts between the investment
… of the house building and in transactable heirlooms, in order to illuminate how the house can …

‘Kinning and De-kinning’introduces a special issue that considers how houses, heirlooms
and other owned items reproduce kinship and family in diverse societies. It revisits death and …

… She’d installed a shade system — a network of triangular cuts of sail-cloth artfully pulled
over the path between the Earth House and the Big Dig Arena — but sailcloth was no match for …

In many white colonial and transatlantic families, heirlooms store wealth generated by, and …
, and selective remembering and silencing that endows heirlooms with filial significance. This …

… In this paper, however, I argue that, if identified, heirlooms have the … for heirloom use in
bands, tribes, and chiefdoms, and, based on this evidence, I suggest criteria by which heirlooms …

This study explores how heirlooms, usually regarded as objects of family identity and stability,
can also become objects of evolving personal identities and change. Our approach is …

… Formative objects were worn as heirloom ornaments and were buried in the dedications of
Postclassic buildings. The ruins of Classic period cities were visited for religious observances…

… I want the ring to start becoming a family heirloom, and to be … This investigation examines
rituals associated with heirlooms in … the development and ritualized use of family heirlooms. …

… By an heirloom we mean merely some article, such as a portrait, or a piece of … an heirloom,
because, as is stated by Wentworth, such boxes " have their very creation to be the houses or …

… Although issues around the value of physical and digital artifacts to people and households
are broad, we have found two specific corpora of work, which are most influential in …